Governance is the critical framework for decision making and the command and control of the family office. There are several key pillars to the development of successful family office governance, one that will help establish a framework for a family seeking to thrive in its next chapter apart from its successful operating business.
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FOX Forum Agenda for Thursday
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Glen W. Johnson, President of Membership, FOX
Disruptions and Their Impact on Family Offices
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The pandemic has created tremendous disruption on many levels causing dramatic changes in how we work, communicate, travel and manage risk. Our reliance and integration of technology has created data security risks across the office and family. Talent is on the move, and it remains difficult to find and retain critical employees, and where and how they work has forever changed. The regulatory and tax landscape is rapidly shifting, causing a renewed focus on longer term planning and structural changes in the office.
Update from FOX Leadership Team
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Sara Hamilton, Founder and Board Chair, FOX Glen W. Johnson, President of Membership, FOX Peter Moustakerski, CEO, FOX
Caroline Rose Hunt was the 3rd child of H.L. Hunt Jr. an American oil tycoon and entrepreneur. She established her family enterprise in the early 1980s, focusing on hotels and leisure, and exited in 2011. Today the enterprise holding company, The Rosewood Corporation, has a centralized ownership structure, headed by John Dziminski, enterprise president. John oversees three diversified business lines including oil and gas exploration, private equity direct investments, and real estate direct ownership.
This seminar will begin with trends discovered from FOX’s biennial family office benchmarking survey and will be supported by family office case studies to bring several of the trends to life. The case studies will be used to illustrate a variety of best practices and strategies that were identified in the survey.
FOX Vision for Resilient Families
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Welcome to the 2021 FOX Family Forum.Glen W. Johnson, President of Membership, FOXPeter Moustakerski, CEO, FOX Sara Hamilton, Founder and Board Chair, FOX
Selecting the right investment vehicle often receives less attention than the other more known investment principles such as the value of diversification. Broadly speaking, investors can access four types of investment vehicles—including separately managed accounts—to avert making a wrong decision that can saddle a family with unexpected taxes, increased costs, or limited flexibility.
Returning to Work Amid COVID-19
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Since the pandemic’s early days, employers have been wondering when – and how – they’d be able to return to the office. Those concerns only got more pressing as vaccinations grew and COVID-19 variants increased. In this piece, FOX’s family office members share their timetables, policies, and what returning to work looks like at this point in the pandemic.
2021 State of the Family Office Industry
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The 2021 State of the Family Office Industry benchmarking report is the next iteration in FOX’s ongoing research into Family Offices. The FOX Family Office study is intended to empower family leadership and office executives to understand important metrics to measure family office value, identify areas for improvement, and plan for the future of the family office and the entire family enterprise.